How 'My Undesirable Friends' Captured Journalists' Last Days in Russia: 'History Happened as We Were Filming'

How 'My Undesirable Friends' Captured Journalists' Last Days in Russia: 'History Happened as We Were Filming'

When Julia Loktev brought her camera to Russia, she didn’t know that she would soon capture history. At least, not to the extent that she did. “This is a film where history happened as we were filming, which rarely happens. I mean, most docs are made about something that has already happened, and you’re trying to figure out how to tell the story of something that happened in the past,” Loktev told TheWrap. “In this case, I went to film something…